Word: sophomoricism
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The administration completely forgot its ideals, however, when it accepted this invitation. It means a tremendous spurt in that ballyhoo and sophomoric enthusiasm deplored in recent years by men and women--including President Butler--who have seen the growing vices which such unmitigated emphasis was developing.
Perhaps Cambridge has its attractions. Sophomoric rhapsodists can find much amusement in professors who tread hats and coats and the self respect of students with equal lack of fooling. The moronic intelligentsia works off the escape complex in a celluloid dosage of Will Rogers. H. T. P., whom the Vagabond...
The Road to Singapore (Warner) is an underweight drama of the tropics, showing a cynical but maligned roue (William Powell) gracefully attaching the wife (Doris Kenyon) of a colonial doctor whose headgear alone would almost have been grounds for desertion. Derived from a briefly exhibited drama called Heat Wave, the...
Yale's stormy petrels, whose shrill cries have lately uncovered many sins, have been busy unearthing new terrors beneath Harkness Gothicana. One of the latest skeletons in the new cupboard is traditional "Tap Day" which for some time has been the occasional target of campus with as well as of...
This year the Harvard Liberal Club has confined its activities to a series of excellent speakers and by so doing has attracted a larger element in the University many of whom would have been repelled by its rather sophomoric outbursts of previous years. The Socialist Club has been the organization...